'Very cheap lipstick on a very ugly pig': Dem congressman trashes McCarthy's latest budget plan
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) expects that the government shutdown is likely to begin this weekend.
Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Jansing, Himes explained, "Nothing that is happening in the House is the steps that [previous speaker] ... Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlined. Which is to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution."
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has backed off the agreement he made with President Joe Biden earlier this year and the right flank of the GOP is threatening to bring down McCarthy if he makes a deal with Democrats.
"It's not because of political or partisan bickering," Himes said. "It's about whether Kevin McCarthy can do what you showed Chuck Schumer suggest he do. What Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, suggests he do, which is, let's sideline the 5, 10, 20 radicals and let's bring some Democrats on board just the way we did with the debt ceiling so we don't shut down the government. That's McCarthy's choice."
Instead, Himes complained, McCarthy is bending his knee to the MAGA wing.
In a statement Wednesday morning, McCarthy complained that the Biden administration would have to submit to his demands for border spending. But Himes fact-checked the claim.
"That is the very definition of putting really cheap lipstick on a very, very ugly pig," he explained. "Of course, Kevin McCarthy has to try to justify his unjustifiable position. Let me say two things about this. Number one, all of a sudden Kevin McCarthy found an acorn, as a blind squirrel does every week or so. That acorn is the border."
He explained that there was a deal that had all of the numbers outlined, but McCarthy walked away from it.
"Kevin made that deal and a day later walked away from it," said Himes. "The other fact I need to highlight here is that we are now considering a Homeland Security bill that actually cuts funding to the forces and technology and everything that secures the border. What you just saw, the metaphors fail, lipstick on a pig, throwing spaghetti on the wall. It's pathetic. It would be funny if it weren't so serious. Young marines are not going to get paid. This is serious stuff."
A bipartisan bill was already approved by 77 U.S. Senators, but McCarthy blocked it.
See the interview in the video below or at the link here.
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